David Ackert
David Ackert is the President of The Ackert Advisory. He has served in the legal, corporate, finance, and accounting sectors as an Executive Coach, Trainer, Marketer, and Strategic Planner since the late ’90s. He has been consultant and advisor to over 200 CEOs, executives, and service firm partners, hailing from both local and global companies and firms. He has developed and implemented business development programs for national legal, accounting, and financial service firms. He is the founder of the Business Development Symposium for lawyers featuring industry thought-leaders Bill Flannery and Larry Bodine, and is the founder of Practice Boomers, a distance learning program that teaches business development to lawyers.
David has written for and contributed to numerous articles in publications including the LA Times, The National Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Business Journal, the Daily Journal, and been quoted in several trade publications and business books. He has participated on panels and been the keynote speaker at numerous conferences on the topic of business development. He is a guest lecturer at USC’s Marshall School of Business, and an instructor at UCLA Extension’s Entertainment Studies and its Business, Management and Legal divisions.
He is the founder of the Growth Group and the leader of the Westwood Group, both chapters of ProVisors, which cater to Los Angeles business professionals. David is also the founding member of the Advisory Board for California Executives. He is a recipient of his local Business Journal’s “Top 40 Under 40 Leadership Award.”
David’s avocational interests include fiction writing, filmmaking, and theater. He has published two short stories in literary magazines and several anthologies. He has produced two documentary films, and as an actor, he has performed on stage, screen, and numerous television shows such as Bones, CSI:Miami, NYPD Blue, Six Feet Under, and The West Wing.
He serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Voices in Harmony, a non-profit arts/mentoring organization he co-founded in 1995 that provides extra-curricular and classroom programs for at-risk teens around the world. He was one of the nine people awarded as a “Difference Maker” from Ithaca College in its recognition of alumni who have made a meaningful impact through community service initiatives. He earned his BA from Ithaca College and Carnegie Mellon University, he holds a Masters in Psychology from USM, and a Business Coaching Certification from SBS.
Rebecca Nassi
Rebecca Nassi practiced law for several years in the private sector, most recently as a Partner at Libertas Law Group. She transitioned out of law to join the coaching team of The Ackert Advisory™.
Rebecca graduated with honors from CSUN with a BA in English and obtained her J.D. from Loyola Law School. She is a certified Executive Coach and continues her learning through the University of Santa Monica, where she has a Masters in Spiritual Psychology.
Rebecca has contributed her expertise to several non-profit organizations in the Los Angeles area, including Public Council, which provides legal services to the economically disadvantaged, and ARM, dedicated to researching cures for HIBM. She has organized multiple fundraising efforts for the Jewish Federation.
Jeff Tanenbaum
Jeff Tanenbaum joined the Senior Coaching Team of The Ackert Advisory™ after over two decades as an accomplished entrepreneur.
He launched four successful business ventures and served in executive leadership roles for several national businesses and non-profit organizations. He was a Regional Executive Vice President of Tranzon LLC, a national real estate auction firm, where he orchestrated a merger with Remarketing Associates, Inc. (a national technology auction firm servicing Fortune 500 companies such as Apple Computer, ExxonMobil, and Digital Equipment Corporation). Prior, Jeff was the Executive Vice President of the Great American Group for 10 years.
Jeff currently coaches such non-profit organizations as the Boys & Girls Clubs, Boys Town, and American Heart Association to achieve greater fund-raising results by employing sound planning, organizational, and mission-centric strategies.
Jeff serves on the Boards of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Conejo and Las Virgenes and the Southern California Auctioneers Association (formerly its Vice President).
Susan Braverman
Susan Braverman, LCSW-C, PCC, brings over 35 years of coaching and consulting experience to the Senior Coaching Team of The Ackert Advisory™. Susan has worked with organizations of all kinds to enhance workplace climate, increase individual and team effectiveness, help individuals and groups cope effectively with conflict at work, and develop leaders at all levels. As owner and founder of Crisis Management Group, Inc., she worked with some of the most challenging workplace issues, helping individuals and groups cope effectively with conflict at work. She is the author of numerous articles on workplace stress. Since selling the company and moving to Washington, DC in 2002, she has focused exclusively on coaching emerging leaders at all levels of organizations.
Susan is a licensed independent clinical social worker in both Massachusetts and Maryland. She is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and is certified by ICF at the ACC level. She is a graduate of Coach Training Institute (CTI) and is President of the Washington, DC Chapter of the ICF. She is qualified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory, and is certified to administer The Leadership Circle Profile™ and The Leadership Circle Culture Survey. She is also a member of the Society for Human Resource Management.
Michael Mark
Michael Mark is the founder and President of Corporate Sustenance, an Executive Coaching firm servicing professionals in the Chicago area. He has provided strategic guidance to executives and service professionals for over ten years. Michael is also a seminar leader and retreat facilitator, and is one of the key outsourced facilitators for Mass Mutual Insurance’s training and development. He is a Senior Coach for The Ackert Advisory’s™ Chicago-area clients.
